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The winners of the 2010 Prix Aurora Awards were announced over Victoria Day weekend at a gala banquet in Winnipeg concluding Keycon, this year's Canadian National Science Fiction Convention. Liana Kerzner was mistress of ceremonies. The winners are:

Best Novel in English: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer (published by Penguin Canada)

The Constellation Awards are Canada's annual science fiction awards focused on rewarding excellence in science fiction film and television. Now in its fourth year, The Constellation Awards celebrate and honour the actors, writers, and technical artists behind the best of today's science fiction film and TV works -- with an added focus on Canadian contributions to science fiction film and television.
The 2010 nominees are here

Now we are three! The Canadian SF Works Database, founded by Marcel Gagné and Robert J. Sawyer, turned three years old on Friday, March 19, 2010. Over 235 legitimate users have accounts here and many dozens have contributed to the wikis. Thank you all for making this site work!
This year, the Prix Aurora Awards had three times as many people casting nominating ballots as in any previous year. Much credit for that goes to Clint Budd and the Aurora team -- but I'd like to think that having easy reference lists of potential nominees here at the Canadian SF Works Database contributed, too. Again, many thanks to everyone who has helped! We couldn't have done it without you. :)

Peter de Jager -- a past columnist for the Aurora Award-winning fanzine Voyageur -- has just received the Lifeboat Foundation's Guardian Award for his efforts to avert the Y2K problem; Peter lives in Brampton, Ontario.
Details are here and here.

The Aurora Award-winning website MADE IN CANADA -- Don Bassie's elaborate and detailed repository of information about Canadian science fiction and fantasy -- is no more. It had been hosted on Yahoo's Geocities service, and, in a spectacular act of online genocide, Yahoo wiped out all free Geocities sites on 26 October 2009. Don's site had been an enormous asset to us all, and it's terrible that it's gone. For the record, the URL for it was www.geocities.com/canadian_SF. Don had stopped updating the site -- which won Auroras in 2000, 2003, and 2004 -- some time ago, but it was still an enormously valuable historical resource.
Thank God for the Internet Archives. The most recent version from there, dated August 2004, can be accessed here. Sadly, it only contains bits and pieces of the now-gone full site, though.

Cory Doctorow's Little Brother has just won the Prometheus Award (for Libertarian SF); it will be presented to him at the Worldcon in Montreal. Details are here.
(And it should be noted that Montrealer Donald Kingsbury's 1982 Courtship Rite was a finalist this year for the Prometheus Hall of Fame award.)